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Monetary policy and fiscal policy are the two important macroeconomic policies which are used to achieve certain major macroeconomic goals like economic growth, unemployment reduction, counteract inflation and overall economic development of the nation. The effect of macroeconomic variables may differ in terms of degree, duration, different economic systems and under different exchange rate regimes. This study analyses the effectiveness of monetary policy and fiscal policy on the economy in terms of economic integration and different exchange rate regimes. Regression analysis in this study found that the fiscal policy is more effective in a closed economy and monetary policy is more effective in an open economy. Also the study finds that the fiscal policy is more effective under managed float exchange rate regime and monetary policy is more effective under perfectly flexible exchange rate. So this study also validated Mundell-Fleming model.
Keywords: monetary policy, fiscal policy, closed economy, open economy, exchange rate, economic growth.
JEL Classification: E4, E5, E6, E10, E63.
Introduction
Monetary and fiscal policies have long been the important instruments for policy makers to achieve their macroeconomic goals like economic growth with price stability and exchange rate stability and economic development. Monetary policy is the policy used by the central bank to control the liquidity in the market which involves controlling inflation, exchange rate oscillations through various monetary instruments like CRR, SLR various interest rates and open market operations. Likewise finance ministry uses fiscal policy to achieve its objectives like economic growth and development through various fiscal tools like public revenue, public expenditure and public borrowings.
According to traditional macroeconomic theories, fiscal policy is more effective in the case of fixed exchange rate system and monetary policy is more effective under flexible exchange rate system. Economists usually compare the effect of both these policies on different economies under different exchange rate regimes and different economic systems. The reason behind is both the policies are equally important to achieve major and common macroeconomic goals like economic growth (growth rate of GDP) and economic development directly or indirectly through GDP. In case of economic growth and development, fiscal policy can be applied directly and results can be obtained immediately, but monetary can be applied directly for economic growth through decreasing rates and...